The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-09-07

SucClUfS, SllIlOOSN pSiOiN WV Ivan
Act was introduced, can have
nothing to do with the appropria-
ton in that Act for the encourage
ment of immigration. 1t may be
an unnecessary expenditure, but it
is part of the ordinary departmental
charges. As well charge the sala-
ries of Inspector-General and Secre-
tary Of the Board of immigration to
loan account. In Ike manner it is
unlawful to make advances from
ordinary revenue for services pro-
vided for by loan. Let him obey
the law, therefore, and keep the
loan and revenue accounts entirely
separate. He does nothing Of the
kind, however, and while ignoring
both the Loan and Appropriation
Acts, seeks to justify himself by
saying that he is working out an
Appropriation Bill and a Loan Bill
passed by the last Legislature, and
has no power to inaugurate a new
financial programme until the next
Legislature meets" The COM
plant is that Mr.. Green is not
working out" either Of these Acts
of the Legislature which he is bound
to obey. Law and public policy
alike condemn his course of action.
Mr.. Green justiiles his payment
of claims in the burnt district with
six per cent bonds, and contends
that it is a legitimate charge upon
loan. This is denied; but he can
easily set the matter at rest by taxi
ing the opinion Of the Supreme
Court judges, as he is empowered
to do by the Constitution, and as he
should do for his own guidance and
protection. The Loan Act says
explicitly [Section A.. "Thc sums
borrowed under this Act shall be
placed to the credit of the loan
fund, and shall be paid out for the
following purposes and none other
These purpose are-1, recall and
cancel bonds; 2, immigration; 3,
inter-island cable and electric light;
4, Water Works; 5, harhor and
wharves; 6, improvement of streets
of Honolulu and roadways Of the
Kingdom; Z, steam tug Eleu; 8,
expense floating loan.
1t can hardly be said that the
commissioners award of damages
for land taken TO widen streets after
the great fire is money borrowed
under the Loan Act, and if not then
the bonds given in satisfaction there
of have been illegally issued, even
admitting, which is not done by ana
means, that these damages are y
legitimate charge against loan.
Bonds can only be lawfully issued
in exchange for United States gold
coin; and a demand against the
Treasury is not cash payment into
it for the purchase of bonds.
1t is needless to discuss the Postal
Savings Bank loan any further. 1t
is satisfactory to note that there are
capitalists in the Kingdom prepared
10 buy Government six per cents at
ar, when they have been offered,
without buyers, at from 81 to SO IN
Honolulu within the past fortnight,
and seeing also that 50 is the latest
London quotation. Capital is pro-
verbally without patriotism, but in
this case probably the Hawaiian ex-
ception will prove the rule.
1t is to be noted that the Finance
Minister does not attempt to justify
the illegal payment of the Makiki
claims, $4,000 odd. This demand
came from the Minister of the In
terror probably, and therefore Mr..
Thurston's attention should be call
ed to section 4 of the Appropriation
Act, which he assisted to pass last
session as a check upon Ministers
doing the very thing which he APP
pears to have himself sanctioned in
this case. Section 4 reads: "The
Minister of Finance shall not cause
or allow to be paid from the Treas
ury any money for objects not au.
thorized by law nor for
any object herein authorized over
and above the amount appropriated
therefor" The Makiki claims do
not appear in the Appropriation
Bill, and the Bill introduced last
session to authorize their payment
was not even read O third time as
the two "Hansard" reports show.
This is a gross and deliberate viola
ton of the first clause of section 4
of the Appropriation Act above
quoted; and is it not also the fact
that there have been other payments
in the Interior Department to con-
siderable amount in contravention
of the last clause of the same Sec
ton? Now, violations of law are
the same whether they be committed
by Messrs. Green and Thurston or
by Messrs. Kanoa and Aholo, and
the facts stated herein prove that
there is really nothing to choose be-
tween them in this particular.
The great length of this communi-
cation forbids analysis of the esti-
mate of receipts and expenditures
of the Hawaiian Treasury for the
current six months, in the Finance
Minister'S intermediate report. Suf-
flee it to say that it is deceptive and
misleading, because it treats Postal
Savings Bank deposits and loan as
ordinary Government realizations,
and mixes the loan expenditures